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* gnatsweb/246: Category drop-downs should display category desc instead of ID
@ 2001-08-23  5:24 keith.jones
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: keith.jones @ 2001-08-23  5:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gnats-gnats

>Number:         246
>Category:       gnatsweb
>Synopsis:       Category drop-downs should display category desc instead of ID
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 23 05:24:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Keith Jones <keith.jones@iop.org>
>Release:        gnatsweb-2.8.0
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
Category IDs are not always obvious to the submitter of a PR, therefore problem reports are often assigned to an incorrect category. A more "intuitive" method of displaying the category in gnatsweb would be to show the category description instead of the ID in the submit/edit/query forms.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
See attached file for my quick and dirty solution for gnatsweb-2.8.0 (context diff). YMMV with later versions of gnatsweb.

I haven't patched the query results page; this might also be desirable.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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* Re: gnatsweb/246: Category drop-downs should display category desc instead of ID
@ 2001-08-26 10:37 yngves
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: yngves @ 2001-08-26 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gnats-prs, keith.jones, nobody, yngves

Synopsis: Category drop-downs should display category desc instead of ID

Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->yngves
Responsible-Changed-By: yngves
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Aug 26 10:37:56 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why:
    -
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: yngves
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 26 10:37:56 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    Thanks for the patch. This has already been implemented in Gnatsweb 4. Gnatsweb 2.x is unlikely to receive any further maintenance.

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=246&database=gnats


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* Re: gnatsweb/246: Category drop-downs should display category desc instead of ID
@ 2001-08-23  5:34 Yngve Svendsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Yngve Svendsen @ 2001-08-23  5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nobody; +Cc: gnats-prs

The following reply was made to PR gnatsweb/246; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: keith.jones@iop.org,gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnatsweb/246: Category drop-downs should display category
  desc instead of ID
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:28:37 +0200

 At 12:22 23.08.2001 +0000, keith.jones@iop.org wrote:
 >Category IDs are not always obvious to the submitter of a PR, therefore 
 >problem reports are often assigned to an incorrect category. A more 
 >"intuitive" method of displaying the category in gnatsweb would be to show 
 >the category description instead of the ID in the submit/edit/query forms.
 
 Thanks. This has actually already been implemented in what will soon become 
 Gnatsweb 4. However, I am not planning on doing any more 2.x releases, so 
 this is fairly unlikely to make its way into that branch.
 
 Yngve Svendsen
 Gnatsweb maintainer
 


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